It's been busy around the ole' homestead this past week. The husband is on his annual vacation and there are many projects in the works. His project - the painting of the house. My project - throw a birthday bash for oldest girly girls 24th birthday ! Woot woot !
His project consists of finishing putting all the siding on the house. Check. Power wash the entire house. Check. Scrape off the residual paint and caulk EVERYTHING. It's in the process. Paint. Tomorrow.
My project. Put together a b-day bash and hey, since it's so close to Halloween we may as well have it on that day and go all out with decorations and a game or two. While we're at it - lets invite all the grandparents too. So - because I'm a crafty woman and we had leftover wood siding - I made the decorations. We have signs made out of wood. We have bats and ghosts. We have plans for a candy treat tree. We have pumpkins. Oh and the pumpkin adventures we have ! Apparently if you leave a pumpkin outside the dog will chew off the stem and run away with it. Ugh. So, one pumpkin is missing it's stem and the rest of them are inside for now away from Rascal ! Silly dog !
The rest of the party adventures consist of cooking. Just how much chili and "mummy" hot dogs do you need for 30 people ? I don't know for sure but I'm thinking 6lbs of hamburger later it should do the trick. If it doesn't I guess they'll have to raid the candy tree and be satisfied with that. Dessert. Oh my... Desserts ! The cinnamon rolls are made and waiting to be thawed. If we're having chili then we must have cinnamon rolls. The pumpkin gingerbread is finished and it will be thawed and sliced on Sunday too. The famous cheesecake will get baked tomorrow before or after we take the grand kids to trick or treat street ! Of course, there will be angel food cake too because it's oldest girlies fave !
So I still have a lot to do but it'll be worth the smiles and satisfied tummies on Sunday ! Happy 24th oldest girly !
